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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : 14/04/2005</div>
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      <b>sleep</b> - suspend Scilab</p>
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        <tt>sleep(milliseconds)</tt>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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      <tt>
        <b>sleep</b>
      </tt> : Sleep process for specified number of miliseconds
    specified by the argument. The actual suspension time may be longer
    because of other activities in the system, or because of the time spent in
    processing the call.</p>
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    tic;sleep(6000);toc
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      <a href="../graphics/xpause.htm">
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          <b>xpause</b>
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      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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      <font color="blue">Author</font>
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    <p>Allan CORNET</p>
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